February 13th Mardi Gras Chapter Meeting
The Rare Martini Bar (formerly Bombay Café)
2839 7th Ave. South | Birmingham AL 35233
11:30 – 1:00 1 LU HSW Yes
Members $15 interns $10 non-members $25
Insights into Fire-Rated Glass Applications
SCHOTT North America
This presentation will determine the requirements for fire-rated glass according to building codes, interpret the relevant test procedures, explain the selection of the proper fire-rated glass types and identify the particularities of fire-rated glass and glazing compared to common glass applications.
Menu: beef tips and rice, broccoli, black eyed peas and brownies.
RSVP by February 10th. Show up to get your Mardi Gras Beads!!!
Parking – There are two parking lots across the street from The Rare Martini Bar.
AIA’s 10 Principles of Livable Communities
We have been talking about the 150 year anniversary of AIA and this is the year!
Patrick Davis is the AIA150 Champion for the Birmingham Chapter. The Birmingham Chapter has partnered with the Alabama Council to promote the 10 Principles of Livable Communities. We were awarded a grant from National AIA to promote the 10 Principles. Studio i was our first workshop. It was held at Williams Blackstock Architects January 27th. Patrick Davis presented a power point presentation of the 10 principles. Thanks to all the architectes who volunteered their Saturday to work with the students.
dreamArchitecture teacher workshop will be the second workshop and will be held at SawWorks Studio. Professor Cheryl Morgan will give a presentation on the 10 principles. Melissa Jones, local artist will give a hand’s on demonstration for the teachers.
Below are the 10 principles, read them, study them and be ready to answer a question at the Mardi Gras Chapter Meeting and win a prize!!!
- Design on a human scale. Compact, pedestrian-friendly communities allow residents to walk to shops, services, cultural resources, and jobs and can reduce traffic congestion and benefit people's health.
- Provide choices. People want variety in housing, shopping, recreation, transportation, and employment. Variety creates lively places and accommodates residents in different stages of their lives.
- Encourage mixed-use development. Integrating different land uses and varied building types create vibrant, pedestrian-friendly, and diverse communities.
- Preserve urban centers. Restoring, revitalizing, and infilling urban centers take advantage of existing streets, services, and buildings and avoid the need for new infrastructure. This helps to curb sprawl and promote stability for city neighborhoods.
- Vary transportation options. Giving people the option of walking, biking, and using public transit, in addition to driving, reduces traffic, protects the environment, and encourages physical activity.
- Build vibrant public spaces. Citizens need welcoming, well-defined public places to
stimulate face-to-face interaction, encourage civic participation, admire public art, and gather for public events.
- Create a neighborhood identity. A "sense of place" gives neighborhoods a unique character, enhances the walking environment, and creates pride in the community.
- Protect environmental resources. A well-designed balance of nature and development
preserves natural systems, protects waterways from pollution, reduces air pollution, and
protects property values.
- Conserve landscapes. Open space, farms, and wildlife habitat are essential for
environmental, recreational, and cultural reasons.
- Design matters. Design excellence is the foundation of successful and healthy communities.
February 15 Intern Site Visit
Ronald McDonald House. Click for details.
January Chapter Meeting
If you missed the January Chapter meeting – you missed a great presentation by Constructive Communications. The AIA Office had several calls from firms that wanted the presentation. Ashley Kizzire was kind enough to send the PDF of the presentation. Click here to download
FREE LUNCH–SPONSORSHIP APPRECIATION -SAVE THE DATE
We have a great location for our March Sponsorship Appreciation Luncheon,
Intermark Group, Inc. 101 25th St. North (formerly Rogers Trading Company) on the 2nd floor.
March 13th from 11:30 – 1:30.
Let’s have a big crowd so our sponsors will know how much we appreciate them! We could not have all the programs we do without their support.
2007 Design Awards Call for Entries!
Click here for the Call for Entries
Do you remember all the reasons to enter AIA Birmingham Design Awards?
- The winning firms are on a slide show on the home page of the AIA Birmingham website.
- All entries are posted on the Design Awards and Honors page of the AIA Birmingham website.
- The AIA Birmingham website had over 7,000 hits last month.
- The AIA office receives calls on a regular basis requesting information on firms/architects to use for commercial and residential. They are referred to the AIA Birmingham website.
See the 2006 Design Awards on the website.
- Your firm has completed some very impressive work and recognition feels great!
- Show off your work!
Be Ready for these Dates
- April 2nd – Entry forms due.
- May 2nd – Boards Due
- June 21st – Design Awards Gala
THE BARKITECTURE TOUR WANTS YOU!
Calling all creative architects and talented artists!
Join The American Institute of Architects Birmingham chapter as we team up with The Greater Birmingham Humane Society for GIMME SHELTER: BARKITECTURE TOUR & CHARITY AUCTION. This unique event gives local architects and artists the chance to be as creative as you wish while helping raise funds for homeless animals. We are seeking 20 participants to design and build unique dog houses to be displayed around the greater Birmingham area on the Barkitecture Tour and then auctioned off at the exclusive Charity Auction on July 14, 2007 at the B&A Warehouse.
The GIMME SHELTER: BARKITECTURE TOUR & CHARITY AUCTION is being produced by a team of experienced marketing and advertising professionals. Each aspect of the event will be aggressively promoted both editorially and commercially, in turn providing positive, community based exposure for the participating architects and artists. We hope you will take this unique opportunity to participate in the start-up year of what is sure to become a long running and popular charitable event for the Birmingham area.
If you are interested in participating please click here.
Auburn University Symposium
The Auburn University ARCH Advisory Council will host a Symposium at the Birmingham Urban Studio
- Friday, March 2nd - 9AM to 12:30 PM.
The topic will be "Integrated Practice", or "the emerging technologies that allow owners, architects, contractors to create a three dimensional construction of a virtual building plus the new ways of working this technology engenders".
Presentations include:
- Building Information Modeling Project Presentations - Michael LeFevre and Paul Hedgepath - Holder Construction Company presentation of a Stevens & Wilkinson Stang & Newdow
project in Atlanta
- Parametric Modeling Project Presentations - Marc Simmons, Front, Inc, NYC - joint venture architects with Jean Novel on the NYC project to be presented
- Architectural Education and Integrated Practice Presentation - Dean Daniel S. Friedman, FAIA, College of Architecture & Urban Design, University of Washington
Symposium will be in the large meeting room - ground floor -
Auburn Urban Studio - 1731 First Avenue North.
Congratulations Aubrey Garrison!!!
Aubrey Garrison III received the first Person of Hope Award at the “A Place Called Hope” Benefit on Thursday, December 14th, 2006 held at the Workplay Center. This special award recognizes an inspirational person who has provided hope and support to the community. Garrison, who has worked with I Found Hope for 6 years, has been an instrumental force in the support and success of the Center. According to Mark Means, the Center’s director, Garrison was recognized as, “someone who exhibits through everything he touches; his church, his business, his friends and people that first meet him always walk away with a sense of how interested he is in them”. This special award presentation included video testimonials from several of Garrison’s longtime associates and friends.
Congratulations Aubrey Garrison!!
Sketch Class Anyone?
The AIA Office has been contacted regarding a sketch class. We need to know if anyone is interested. The class would be in the evenings at Auburn Urban Studio and taught by Professor Cheryl Morgan. There will be a charge for the class, undetermined at the moment. Please contact the AIA office if you are interested, aiabirm@aiabham.org
Is Your Name on The LIST?
Click here to see!!!
February Meeting Of Design Build Institute of America
South Central Chapter - Design-Build in the Federal Arena: Risks & Rewards
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The Harbert Center
2019 Fourth Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama
11:30am – 1:00pm
Click here for more details
Alabama Council State Convention
Register now for the state convention, rooms are going quick!!
The Alabama Council AIA 2007 Annual Convention
Village of Baytowne Wharf, Sandestin, Florida
July 6th - 8th, 2007
SAVE THE DATE (download the postcard)!
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